In compliance with current WHO and CDC recommendations to minimize risk of exposure to and spread of the COVID-19 virus, I am temporarily suspending in-person hypnotherapy sessions with me in my office. However, phone and Skype consultations ARE and WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE!
(This blog was originally posted on January 20, 2014)
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| Photo by Rick Hustead |
If you do not
want to be hypnotized—whether you do not believe that hypnosis will work for
you or resist being hypnotized because you are afraid—you won’t be. I repeat
the statement, “with your permission and only
your permission” throughout the session to remind my clients that they can choose to be hypnotized and actualize
their desired behavior changes. I also use my clients’ own words to reinforce
their emotions, reasons and motivations for making these changes. As a
certified hypnotherapist, I use hypnosis is a tool to help you change behaviors
that no longer work for you and replace them with behaviors, strategies, etc.
that you want and believe will improve your quality of life. During hypnosis,
you are completely aware of everything going on around you. If you wouldn’t say
or do something when you are completely alert, you would not and could not be
made to do anything in hypnosis that opposes your beliefs, morals and ethical
principles.
Therefore, I
tend to be very critical of how and why hypnosis is depicted on television and
in movies: a protagonist is “commanded” to do something that is completely out
of character; the hypnotist erases and then replaces a character’s memory with
a new, fictitious personal history and personality; or, a person is
“hypnotized” to behave in a particular way simply to move the plot along. In
these scenarios, the character is completely unaware that he has been
hypnotized and just does whatever the hypnotist tells him to move the plot
along. Imagine my surprise that I not only bought the hypnosis-ambush of a character
in a popular detective series, but it made absolute sense why this scenario
worked and was believable.
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Sara
R. Fogan, C.Ht. is a certified hypnotherapist based in Southern
California. She graduated with honors from the Hypnosis Motivation
Institute in
2005. In July 2019 she was voted the Best Hypnotherapist in Santa Clarita,
California. For more information about Calminsense Hypnotherapy® and to set up an appointment, please visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/.
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